Effect of Automated Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Queries on Emergency Department Opioid Prescribing.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

We assess whether an automated prescription drug monitoring program intervention in emergency department (ED) settings is associated with reductions in opioid prescribing and quantities.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of ED visits by Medicaid beneficiaries. We assessed the staggered implementation (pre-post) of automated prescription drug monitoring program queries at 86 EDs in Washington State from January 1, 2013, to September 30, 2015. The outcomes included any opioid prescribed within 1 day of the index ED visit and total dispensed morphine milligram equivalents. The exposure was the automated prescription drug monitoring program query intervention. We assessed program effects stratified by previous high-risk opioid use. We performed mu

SUBMITTER: Sun BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5820164 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature